Chapter 1018 Miss Linda’s Delicious Offer

Chapter 1018 Miss Linda's Delicious Offer

Listening to Miss Linda's frank offer, Alexander was frankly a bit surprised.

He thought given the cold, harsh greeting just now, she would go on to chastise and scorn Alexander, such as calling him a fool for choosing the obviously losing side.

But in a complete one-eighty to her previous attitude, she was now proposing to have Alexander join her.

What gives?

The mercurial nature of the woman made Alexander confused.

"Wha..t?" Hence at first he even thought he was mishearing her, as Alexander furrowed his brows.

"I want you to switch sides." Miss Linda crisply repeated, before charmingly swinging her arms, "This is why I wanted to meet you here alone, my lord. Away from my nosy sister. To allow to frankly speak your mind."

Saying this, the lady then very deliberately stretched one of her hands onto the table, opening it and signaling to Alexander to take it- both metaphorically and literally.

Judging by the interaction up until now, Miss Linda was proving herself to be a master manipulator.

Her ability to steer the conversation the way she liked and always keep Alexander guessing was a masterstroke on how to keep your opponents on their toes.

And Alexander was not immediately able to extricate himself out of the opponent's tempo as looking at the stretched hand, for a moment he did not know how to respond.

To say he was not tempted to take the easy way out would be a lie.

Thus he could not help but hear her out, as with a warm smile he curiously posed, "What does my lady have in mind? Switching over to your side.... what would that mean for me?"

"Exactly what I said." Miss Linda repeated for a third time, "You support my son as the family's head and help me replace my sister, thus earning our grace." Rread latest chapters at novelhall.com

The statement was curt and even bossy as Alexander's heart chuckled, 'Grace? I have to 'earn' your grace?'

The tone with which Miss Linda spoke was reminiscent of how Alexander talked to his slaves or soldiers, as subordinates.

And this was coming from a lady who was a bit younger than Alexander.

They said most people were born into nobility, while a very select few were born with nobility in their blood.

This lady in front of him could definitely lay claim to the latter fact.

As proved by despite her poor attitude, Alexander did not actually speak up to rebuke her.

It was like the very way she spoke, the way her beautiful lips and cheeks shifted and danced, and the way she looked at him, all worked to make anything coming out of her mouth sound that much more charming.

"!!!" This complete denial of her policy startled Alexander.

The free trade agreement was basically the sole pillar of reason why Alexander was here.

And here the other side was claiming it did not exist?

If you, then Alexander might as well get on his ship and turn back! There was still time before winter settled in.

"What do you mean? Isn't your local economy faltering? Isn't that the main reason why the people support you?" Hence confronted by the conflict of information, Alexander could not help but ask, genuinely surprised.

He recalled that Lady Miranda calling her sister a liar and now the accusation circled back to her, making the man confused about who was speaking the truth here.

"The economy is fine. The people are still walking the streets and working the fields aren't they?" Miss Linda however very dismissively blew off Alexander's concern about the economy, before imperiously stating, "As long as the peasants are not starving, they are not something to be bothered about. We are doing fine."

It was evident the lady was very contemptuous of lower class folks. Perhaps that's why she was so fine with letting others take the blame for her.

And seeing this, Alexander first lightly cursed, 'Are you going to ask them to eat cake if they cannot buy bread?' because Miss Linda did seem to be that type.

While learning of Miss Linda's version of the story put Alexander in a confused spot, as suddenly he found his will to fight her draining.

If the lady in front of him really could deliver what she promised, then Alexander found it hard to justify siding with Lady Miranda.

Especially when considering the risks involved.

Miss Linda was currently very powerful and Alexander would like to avoid fighting her at all costs.

Thus to clarify what he had heard, he then very clearly shot out to confirm,

"So you are saying that the Margraves family has no financial difficulties and Lady Miranda was simply lying to me? And that you will keep my free trade agreement as is if I join you?"

"I would not say we have no trouble with coin. But with my husband's family's backing, yes, we can promise to keep the free trade agreement open for you my lord." Miss Linda's answer was clear and transparent.

And it was something that should have made Alexander's heart dance as he was being promised exactly what he wanted.

However, after speaking to Lady Miranda and knowing the likely real reason for the Heeat family's interference here, Alexander had reasons to very much doubt her sincerity.

'Is this only a ploy to get me out of the picture so that they can remove Lady Miranda without any trouble and then simply turn their backs on me once they got what they wanted?'

Alexander had trouble believing a lady he had met literally just a few minutes ago.

This was in much contrast to Lady Miranda whom Alexander trusted quite a bit given their long history and how the lady had demonstrated her allegiance via her deeds.